Deploying Debian 5 GNU/Linux with Insight Control for Linux Version 6.0 and 6.1

Root login

By default, the Gnome desktop does not allow the root user to login from the GNOME Display

Manager (GDM) console. You must login as the user student with password student, then

proceed to elevate your privilege level to root using the su or sudo command.

If you want to enable a root login from the GDM console, choose Desktop (from the upper

taskbar)→ Administration→Login Window→ Security tab. Check the box labeled Allow

local system administrator login, then close the window. You should be able to log out and log

back in as the root user with the password root.

If you are using the X Window System on the desktop through the iLO Remote Console, you will find it

helpful to open a console and enter the following command to synchronize your desktop mouse

pointer with the VNC console mouse pointer:

# xset m 1 1

Add the command to your Xsession start-up file to make it a permanent part of your Xsession

start-up procedure.

Providing PSP-like support

The db5-agentless.sh script automatically configures the net-snmp agent to permit HP Systems

Insight Manager (SIM) to connect to the managed system and collect the necessary information using

SNMP to create and maintain an association with the managed system’s management processor. The

management processor must have been discovered previously by HP SIM through either a Manual

Add or a normal Discovery scan of the management processor’s IP address range.

There is no ProLiant Support Pack distributed for the Debian operating system at this time; thus,

enhanced performance and hardware management agent functionality are not available. However,

this agentless installation is sufficient to maintain the association between a server and its

management agent, which enables you to collect some SNMP data and restart the server or perform

SSH management tasks.

Using the HP SIM --- Insight Control for Linux plug-in to

install Debian

This section provides a brief introduction to setting up and deploying Debian 5.0 to one HP ProLiant

server; the procedure consists of the following steps, each step is described in its own section:

Step 1: Add a Debian 5.0 source to your repository

Step 2: Copy or move the Debian ISO images into the directory

Step 3: Create directories and copy ISO images

Step 4: Download the Debian installer

Step 5: Download any .udeb packages needed for hardware support

Step 6: Create an init script to perform pre-installation tasks

Step 7: Create auxiliary RAM disk for the kernel

Step 8: Create a default custom OS configuration file

Step 9: Create agentless installation association configuration script

Step 10: Installing Debian5-i386 on a target system